Need some good reading material? Here’s a quick recap of the top IP news stories we loved diving into this month!
- “From virtual makeup to digital hamburgers, some of the biggest brands are looking to cement their Web3 status.” – Here’s Why Brands From McDonald’s to Walmart are Gobbling Up Metaverse Trademarks, Decyrpt
- “In these times of crisis, did we also learn that the world of trademarks was turned upside down? How else can you describe the fact that the world’s highest-grossing pharmaceuticals had – in essence – no trademarks? Along comes COVID, and the world’s best-selling drugs are known only by the names of manufacturers who produce them.” – The World’s Best-Selling Pharmaceuticals Don’t Need Trademarks, Forbes
- “Space age and farm age engineers have been teaming up with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to create a next-generation transportation crate for fine art as it travels the world.” – Georgia O’Keeffe Museum gets patent for high-tech transportation container, Santa Fe New Mexican
- “The US Copyright Office has rejected a request to let an AI copyright a work of art. Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed Creativity Machine. The board found that Thaler’s AI-created image didn’t include an element of “human authorship” — a necessary standard, it said, for protection.” – The US Copyright Office says an AI can’t copyright its art, The Verge
- “An NFT is more like a digital certificate of authenticity that proves that one owns a ‘special’ copy of a work of art. The purchaser is only buying a slab of code. ” – NFTs And Copyright: What You See Is Not What You Get, Above The Law
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